Khobar Towers; Tragedy and Response

Washington, DC: United States Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xix, [3], 276 pages. Illustrations (Maps and Diagrams). Photographs. Biographical Sketches. Notes. Sources. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears and chips. The author is a historian, educator, and writer. He has been with the Air Force History Support Office, Washington, DC, historian, 1980- to the present. He is also a lecturer at the U.S. Defense Department's Joint Military Intelligence College and was appointed as a fellow to the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation. The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, located near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on June 25, 1996. Khobar Towers was being used as quarters for Coalition forces who were assigned to Operation Southern Watch, a no-fly zone operation in southern Iraq, as part of the Iraqi no-fly zones. A truck bomb was detonated adjacent to Building #131, an eight-story structure housing members of the United States Air Force's 4404th Wing (Provisional), primarily from a deployed rescue squadron and deployed fighter squadron. In all, 19 U.S. Air Force personnel and a Saudi local were killed and 498 of many nationalities were wounded. The official June 25, 1996, statement by the United States named members of Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (English: "Party of God in the Hijaz") as responsible. In 2006, a U.S. court found Iran and Hezbollah guilty of orchestrating the attack.